Fans of the old Carol Burnette Show and its spin-off Mama's Family remember her as Vicki Lawrence. Others know her by her married name, Vicki Lawrence Schultz. Quite possibly her best work was as feisty, steely-eyed Momma on the Burnett Show, viciously putting down her hapless daughter Eunice, played by Burnett.
Lawrence's musical claim to fame is a song written by her then-husband Bobby Russell: The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, which reached No.1 in 1972. It tells the sordid story of serial small-town infidelity, the fallout from which results in a lynching, gleefully participated in by local "upholders of the law."
Later, Lawrence was host of TV's Win, Lose or Draw and also appeared on various other quiz and game shows.
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